Emma Butler
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Institutional Private Placements
- Private Capital
- Advises on a wide range of domestic and cross-border debt restructurings, debt finance transactions and insolvencies.
- Represents par and distressed investors, including investment funds, noteholders, bondholders and other creditor groups.
Emma advises on complex financial restructuring matters, with a focus on cross-border debt restructurings and debt finance transactions, advising large creditor groups, including institutional investors, as well as fund clients. Combining her sophisticated legal knowledge with a commercial approach, Emma is a trusted advisor on highly complex, fast-moving matters.
Notably, Emma was a key member of the Akin team advising the private placement noteholders in Nordic Aviation Capital’s $6-billion global restructuring.
Emma has been recognized by Euromoney Legal Media Group for inclusion in its Expert Guides: Rising Stars, was shortlisted for the EMEA Women in Business Law Awards Rising Star of the Year: Finance and is recognized as a Key Lawyer for corporate restructuring & insolvency in The Legal 500 UK.
- Nordic Aviation Capital: Counsel to the private placement noteholders in relation to a waiver and deferral arrangement implemented through an Irish scheme of arrangement, and on the restructuring of more than $6 billion of the group’s debt through a chapter 11 plan.
- Premier Oil: Counsel to the holders of private placement notes issued by Premier Oil plc on the $3.5-billion financial restructuring of Premier Oil, which involved a contested scheme of arrangement and subsequently the successful implementation of restructuring plans and ultimately the reverse takeover of the group.
- Nordic Trustee AS: Counsel to the DOF Subsea bondholders, in a restructuring of the financial indebtedness of DOF ASA and its subsidiaries. DOF Subsea and the wider DOF Group are international providers of supply, shipping and subsea services.
- Ozon: Counsel to the ad hoc group of convertible noteholders on the $750-million restructuring of Ozon Holdings PLC, Russia’s largest ecommerce platform.
- ED&F Man: Counsel to various private placement noteholders on the restructuring of more than $1 billion in debt, including the grant of new security instruments in various jurisdictions, of ED&F Man Treasury Management, one of London’s oldest commodities brokers. Restructuring Deal of the Year (IFLR Europe Awards).
EducationL.P.C., The College of Law, London, 2012
B.A., University of Oxford, 2011
L.P.C., The College of Law, London, 2012
B.A., University of Oxford, 2011
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
- The Legal 500 UK, Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency.
- Member, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.
- “The Restructuring Plan – Update on Themes and Market Trends,” ELFA and Akin Webinar, November 2021.